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Published: 13 November 2025 | The English Chronicle Desk | The English Chronicle Online After forty-three days of gridlock, the longest government shutdown in United States history has finally drawn to a close. Federal workers are returning to their posts, national parks are reopening, and key services that had ground to a halt are slowly resuming. Air travel, which had descended into chaos during the shutdown, is returning to its...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Ukrainian forces have been forced to withdraw from several key positions in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, as Russia’s military continues to exploit adverse weather conditions to make tactical gains. The situation, officials say, is dynamic and evolving rapidly, with both sides engaged in intense fighting that has seen villages change hands multiple times over the past week. Vladyslav...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Over the past two weeks, the nation’s civilian airports, military installations, and even nuclear plants have found themselves at the centre of escalating security concerns, plagued by a series of drone sightings that have sparked widespread fear and confusion. What initially appeared to be isolated incidents now seems to form part of a disturbing pattern — one that...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online In Mali’s capital, Bamako, the familiar hum of car engines and horns has been replaced by the shuffle of feet along dusty streets, as residents push depleted motorcycles through a city paralysed by a severe fuel blockade. Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist militia, has escalated its years-long insurgency to include economic warfare, attacking tankers bringing...

Published: 12 November 2025 | The English Chronicle Desk | The English Chronicle Online Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal’s legendary striker, has confirmed that the 2026 World Cup will mark the end of his international career. The 40-year-old forward, who has scored 953 goals for club and country, also revealed that he plans to retire from football within the next one to two years. Next year’s World Cup, hosted across Canada, Mexico,...

Published: 12 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A day after a powerful explosion in Delhi killed at least eight people, witnesses described scenes of horror and disbelief near the Red Fort — one of India’s most iconic landmarks — as windows shattered and panicked crowds fled what many thought was an earthquake. Dozens were injured when a slow-moving car detonated at a busy traffic signal...

Published: 11 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The Philippines is grappling with the aftermath of a devastating super typhoon, Fung-wong, which has claimed at least six lives, just days after another storm left more than 200 people dead. Fung-wong, known locally as Uwan, unleashed heavy rainfall, strong winds, and landslides, compounding the suffering of millions of residents still recovering from back-to-back natural disasters. The storm...

Published: 11 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Hannibal Gaddafi, the youngest son of Libya’s deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been released from detention in Lebanon after nearly ten years without trial. The 49-year-old, who had been held since 2015, was freed after the payment of a reduced bail, ending a prolonged period of legal limbo that human rights groups have consistently criticised as arbitrary and...

Published: 11 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Thailand has announced the suspension of its implementation of the “peace deal” with neighbouring Cambodia, just two weeks after the agreement was signed under the supervision of former U.S. President Donald Trump in Malaysia. The decision comes amid renewed security concerns following a landmine explosion near the disputed border in Sisaket province, which left several Thai soldiers injured,...

Published: 11 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The BBC is facing one of its most high-profile legal challenges in recent years as outgoing Director General Tim Davie prepares to address staff following former U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to sue the corporation for $1 billion (£760 million). The potential lawsuit stems from a Panorama programme that Trump alleges misrepresented his speech from January 6, 2021,...